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D. H. LIND.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1914.

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DAVID H. LINE, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1215,

Application filed September 28, 1914. Serial No. 863,871.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, DAVID H. LIND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Candelabrum, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are :to provide a candelabrum for special service having the candle holders provided therefor, constructed without the use of materials which melt or are otherwise deleteriously affected by heat; to reduce the cost of construction of the article mentioned; to provide means whereby the holders commonly employed for supporting candles may be converted into holders for wicks; and to provide reservoirs or receptacles for oil to be supplied to said wicks.

Dmroz'ngs.Figure 1 is a face view of a candelabrum constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the same; Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section, showing a modified form of the invention, wherein is employed a series of oil reservoirs or receptacles and wicks for burning said oil; Fig. 4 is an outspread view of a blank from which the candelabrum is constructed; Fig. 5 is a view of a battery of oil reservoirs or receptacles provided for use in the modified form,

shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings; Fig. 6 is a vertical section, showing the construction when made in accordance with the modified form of the invention; and F ig. 7 is a cross section of the oil saucer tray, the section being taken on the line 7-7 in Fig. 5.

Descriptiom-As seen best in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the candelabrum is provided with a back 12. The candelabrum is used particularly in certain religious ceremonies connected with the Jewish faith and to this end is embossed with figures, symbols or Words, substantially as shown in the drawings. The back is united integrally with a shelf 13. In the present invention the union thus referred to is formed by folding the blank from which the candelabrum is formed on a line indicated in the drawings by the numeral 14. A fold uniting the back 12 and shelf 13 is formed by the section of material between bends made in the metal on the lines 14 and 15. The shelf 13 is preferably supported on standing edges 16 formed at the opposite ends of the said shelf by the material of the shelf which is downturned, being bent on the lines 17, as shown best in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

Adjacent the forward edge of the shelf 13 are a series of candle holders 18. Each holder is formed by bending the flats 19 formed on the blank of the metal from which the candelabrum is formed, as shown best in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The flats of the blank are each united with the shelf 13 by narrow connecting sections 20, likewise best shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The holders 18 when formed are overturned on the shelf 13, the sections 20 being brought in contact with the shelf, as shown best in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

In the preferred form of the candelabrum, as shown in the drawings, a holder 21 is arranged to hold a candle, having assigned thereto a special function. This holder is formed from the flat 22 in the blank, shown in Fig. 4, which is rolled upon itself to form a cylinder of the desired diameter. In the holders 18, the shelf 13 usually forms a rest for the candle. The holder 21 being suspended above the shelf, requires an inde pendent bottom or retention device. This is provided in the blank by a tab-like extension 23, projected from the flat, as seen best in Fig. 4 of the drawings. When forming the holder 21, after the cylinder is shaped, the extension 23 is turned under the cylinder and formed to support the candle when disposed therein. It is sometimes desired to substitute for the candles usually supported in the holders 18, a series of wicks, such as that indicated by the numeral 24 in Fig. 3 of the drawings. When employing this form of candelabrum, the tray 25 is used. The tray 25 in service rests upon the shelf 13 and the ends of the same tray are bent from the blank on the lines 26 and 27, the bend on the last-mentioned line forming the upturned section 28, which as seen best in Fig. 6 of the drawings, locks the tray 25 in position on the shelf 13.

The tray 25 is provided with a series of elongated saucerlike depressions. 29, arranged to extend below the open end of the cylinders, forming the holders 18, as seen best in Fig. 3 of the drawings. These depressions are filled with a suitable oil which is fed to each wick 24. \Vhen employing the tray 25, it will be noted that the sections 20 uniting the shelf 13 and holders 18, are

- grally connected with said shelf and disposed in serial arrangement adjacent the edge thereof, said holders being open-ended cylinders; and an oil holding tray having a series of saucer-like depressions formed therein, said tray being detachably mounted on said shelf to extend below said holders, the depressions in said tray being disposed beneath said holders.

2. A candelabrum, comprising a shelf; a

Copies of this patent may be obtained for back integrally connected with and disposed in perpendicular relation to said shelf; a plurality of candle holders integrally connected with said shelf and disposed in serial arrangement adjacent the edge thereof, said holders being open-ended cylinders; a bracketed candle holder extended from the base of said back, said holder being intogrally constructed with said back; and a tab integrally formed on said holder to bend transverse the access thereof and below the opening therethrough to form a rest for a candle when held therein.

In witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID H. LIND.

Witnesses:

SARAH J. Honowrrz, JAMES L. WOLF.

five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

